Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

Per Jessen (per@computer.org)
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:22:39 +0100


On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:18:08 +0100 (MET), Pozsar Balazs wrote:
>
>This might be a standard, but _it_is_not_adopted_anywhere! (at least I
>haven't seen it anywhere (I might be blind)).
>I would rather call standard something which is adopted in real life.

No, that would be a socalled defacto standard. Ie. not necessarily a standard
proposed and recommended by a standards body. For instance, you may think that
the UK using pounds and ounces is standard - after all they are both being
used in real life. But it is contrary to the standard. (as given by the SI
system).

rgds,
Per

regards,
Per Jessen, Zurich
http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console.

Windows 2001: "I'm sorry Dave ... I'm afraid I can't do that."

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